The owner of the Grab-n-Go bikini barista chain in Everett, Wash., said a recent barista prostitution bust are the result of trumped up charges, according to the Everett Herald.

Owner Bill Wheeler says that the city is trying to outlaw bikini barista stands. Police say that during a two-month sting, investigators found baristas exposing themselves, performing lewd acts with
whipped cream and posing naked for pictures.

Here's an excerpt of the story from the Everett Herald's Debra Smith:

EVERETT — A police investigation into an Everett
bikini espresso stand is about politics, not prostitution, the owner of
the stand said Thursday.Bill Wheeler said Everett police are
targeting Grab-n-Go Espresso because the city is trying to push through
an anti-bikini stand statute. Wheeler owns at least four bikini
espresso stands in Snohomish County.Five baristas at Grab-n-Go
were charged Wednesday with multiple counts of prostitution and
violating the city's adult entertainment ordinance after a two-month
undercover police investigation.Investigators said they saw the
women exposing themselves, performing lewd acts with whipped cream and
posing naked for pictures in the Grab-n-Go at 8015 Broadway. No arrests
have been made.Police allegations that five baristas were
charging up to $80 to strip down and flash customers while fixing
lattes and mochas are untrue, Wheeler said.

Run free cougar, run free. At least from government hunters in Jackson County.

To the delight of wildlife advocates, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlfe will no longer hunt down and kill cougars because they found it had no effect on complaints of livestock looses or human safety.

Here's the story from Medford Mail Tribune reporter Mark Freeman:

State wildlife biologists say they will abandon
a three-year-old study that failed to show that killing cougars in
Jackson County curbs livestock losses and human-safety complaints
involving large predators.

The much-maligned
study in a 1,000-square-mile target area failed to reach its
objectives, largely because government hunters never killed enough
cougars to make the study viable, according to the Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife.

"The
objective was to make a difference in the human/pet-safety issues and
we were unable to do what we wanted to do," said Larry Cooper, deputy
administrator of the ODFW's Wildlife Division in Salem.

Similar
cougar-killing studies in northeastern Oregon did show a correlation
between thinning cougar numbers and increased survival rates on elk
calves and reduced livestock damage, according to the agency.

Though
24 cougars were killed around much of Jackson County's lowlands over
the past three winters, human-safety and pet-loss complaints did not
decline as theorized.

Speaking of wildlife, Eugene police say they are expected a more "spirited" crowd for Saturday's football game between the Oregon Ducks and Cal Bears.

For one, it's a conference game, for another, they expect many more students as school year gets underway next week. The police mean business as the photo with the Eugene Register Guard story by Jack Moran shows:

Eugene police Lt. Jennifer Bills — who
supervises the department’s gameday patrols in and around Autzen
Stadium — said “typical, run-of-the mill” disturbances are all that
officers dealt with during the Ducks’ first two home contests.

“But those weren’t Pac-10 games, and a lot of students weren’t back in town,” Bills said.